Due to all of the recent weather issues and several unsettled divisional races, Mechanicsburg athletic director Andrea Teeter said the Mid-Penn Conference has decided to cancel its boys' soccer, girls' soccer and field hockey tournaments that were scheduled to be played late next week.

While the Commonwealth (Cumberland Valley) and Colonial Division (Gettysburg) boys' soccer championships have been decided, the Keystone and Capital have not. Tuesday's contest between Northern and East Pennsboro will settle the Capital, but there's a strong possibility that Mechanicsburg and Lower Dauphin will win out and tie for the Keystone Division title — just as those schools did last season. That would have mandated another game just to decide the tournament entrant.

A similar scenario is unfolding on the girls' soccer landscape, where the Commonwealth (Cumberland Valley) and Colonial Division (Greencastle-Antrim) titles have been decided. Since the Keystone Division lead likely will be shared between Hershey and Lower Dauphin, and the Capital Division title halved between Trinity and Northern, play-in games would have been mandated there, too.

Instead, with word of the tournaments being scrapped, programs can stretch out their remaining regular-season games and prepare for District 3 playoff contests.